These flowers may look harmless, but they’re extremely invasive. The CBC’s Danielle McCreadie tells us more about the multiflora rose and how to identify it.
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we’re here in Odell Park in frederickton a beautiful green space in the middle of the city but it’s not immune to tricky invasive plants that choke out native growth and take away habitat from animals this is called the multiflora rose and once you know how to identify it you’re going to see it everywhere these blooms have since died down but you can see just how many there are on one stem that’s where it gets its name multi meaning many and Flora meaning flowers multif Flor Rose is one that likes to grow large it likes to grow out it likes to grow up um you can see it’s got these really tall caning structures that kind of come up and then Fountain out and over um now here this is kind of more of a an isolated Bush but when there’s something for it to grow on it will actually can grow up to 6 M tall and it’ll grow and actually grow on top of other vegetation like other trees and start to suffocate those trees and compete with them for resources so the birds will pick them up and then they either eat them or they carry them away to other places um they’ll poop them out um or just decide to bury them they’ll get stuck to an animal and then when they fall off they have the potential to to spread and start a new tree so you say there is more of this in the park can we go find some yes absolutely we can find some more now okay let’s go so yeah we can there’s actually quite a bit um all along the trail Systema yeah this is a lot of this is a lot of multiflor Rose this is kind of what happens when it escapes The Gardens and starts to take over it’s it’s kind of this extensive spread that is where we start to see those issues for our native Wildlife for the native habitats because a lot of species you know a lot of birds insects they require that like low-level shrub habitat so when something comes in and completely takes over it’s changing those opportunities for those birds and wildli um to to utilize this space the way that they normally would and you can start to see it is starting to choke out other vegetation uh every once in a while you’ll see other plants popping through but for the most part it really is just this uh just the the multi floor row and then as we keep going you can start to see from this angle all of a sudden it’s popping out again there so you start to see again it gets really really full really bushy we start to see those individual canes reaching out um starting and then this is where you start to see you can see it kind of growing up into the top of that canopy so it’s and the pieces that are sticking out at the top it’s all the way up there it’s all the way up there so those are canes that would start at the ground um and you know when you compare it to where we we saw it before where it’s planted when it has something to climb on and rest against it can get up to six meters so if you see it out on your walks there are ways you can stop the spread we recommend um reporting it you can put it on in naturalist is the app that we we encourage people to use that way we can just keep an eye on where some of these um larger kind of escaped plants are showing up and having an impact because the earlier we can get in and deal with them the easier it is and the more likely to be successful and don’t transplant it if you see it in your garden